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Today's soundtrack is Amon Amarth: Twilight of the Thunder God, an epic viking-themed melodic death metal album. This evening, I'm catching up on the assignments from the last two lessons, which were on the trigonometric identities, then I'm doing a quiz. Links to the previous lessons: Part 1, Part 2. I'm having quite a bit of difficulty with the assignment. The problems that I'm being asked to solve are a fair bit more complex than those in the lessons, and there are added c

Today's soundtrack is Amon Amarth: Fate of Norns, another incredible album from the kings of viking-themed melodic death metal. Today's post isn't going to be a typical one. This afternoon after work, I had a large-scale project I needed to complete: taking hundreds of screenshots from a learning resource, cutting each page apart into three or four sections each of various sizes, and pasting those sections into Word. I first tried making an equivalent number of copies of the

Today's soundtrack is Amon Amarth: Surtur Rising, a melodic death metal album that always gets me pumped. I've been listening to these guys for ages; they haven't evolved their sound much, but to me that's a good thing: they do one thing, and they do it really well. When I want to headbang along to some Viking-themed melodic death metal, Amon Amarth is who I'll go to every time. This morning, I'm working on my first Precalculus 12 lesson, "Relations and Functions." Also! My t

Today's soundtrack is Insinnerator: Hypothermia, whose sound harkens to the classic thrash metal bands of the 90s. Energetic and a lot of fun. This morning, I'm reading the introduction of John Grant's An Introduction to Viking Mythology (available in here). Vikings were both chivalrous and barbaric; they had devised philosophies and mythologies that excused "the most bestial behaviour" (p. 6), though the people who lived in Viking villages only condoned these behaviours if t